Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results

Establish Goals (MLR or CCSS): (G)
Maine Learning Results
Content Area: Health Education and Physical Education
Standard Label: F. Decision-Making and Goal Setting Skills.
Standard: F2 Goal-Setting
Grade Level Span: Grades 9 - Diploma
Students develop and analyze plan to attain a personal health goal.
Performance Indicators: a,b,c

What understandings are desired?

Students will understand that: (U)
• personal health practices affect personal health status.
• short-term impulsive decisions affect long term personal health.
• decision-making and goal setting are strategies in creating a long term personal health goal.

What essential questions will be considered?

Essential Questions: (Q)
• How does decision making affect health?
• Why do short-term impulsive decisions affect personal health long term?
• How is personal health assessed?

What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?


Students will know: (K)
Students will be able to: (S)
• The four areas of health.
- Mental, physical, social and emotional
• Critical details of decision making.
- Decisions/consequences
- Actions/reactions
- Personal health needs, strengths and risks
• The sequence and time lines for goal setting.
- Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time based
- Short term goals are small steps towards long term goal
• describe personal health practices.
• evaluate goal setting strategies.
• create long term health goals.
• analyze personal health status.
• imagine their health long term.
• be aware that decisions affect personal health.


2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.